The beast's arms leapt back to her body and she shed her skin, revealing a less human and much scarier appearance. Mistress Centipede giggled in ecstasy of finally acquiring the Jewel. Kagome was frightened. As if she wasn't deadly enough before. With or without the Jewel probably wouldn't have changed Kagome's and the corpse-boy's, er, Inuyasha' fate of being crushed to death.
Then, Inuyasha entertained Kagome the notion of freeing him, so he could kill the beast. The old woman protested, but a freed Inuyasha and a dead Centipede seemed like better odds for survival. Kagome reached for the arrow, and seeing the vines wrapped around him, wondered briefly how long he had been stuck here. With a tiny pang in her heart, Kagome tugged at the arrow, and it disappeared.
The results were beyond what she could have dreamed. No sooner had the arrow disappeared, than Mistress Centipede was dead. Inuyasha was as arrogant after his victory as before. The demon's dismembered flesh still wiggled, as Kagome did as the old miko instructed and pulled the Jewel from it's flesh.
"What I don't understand about what just happened could fill a book..." Kagome commented.
"Then hand the Jewel over to someone who does understand how things stand. Unless you want to die." Inuyasha said.
"Don't hand it over to him, girl." the miko instructed. Kagome agreed silently.
Despite Inuyasha's threat to have no mercy on her, Kagome had survived three attacks more than Mistress Centipede had. With the sealing beads around his neck, and Inuyasha's face flat on the ground at the word "sit", it seemed their adventures were over for the day. Well, one could hope...